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BANNING: Cultural Alliance offers USO/war memorial event

Banning Cultural Alliance is dedicating a monument Monday, May 27, honoring the 46 city residents who died in wars dating back to World War I. The marble slab with names engraved will be placed next to the Iwo Jima sculpture in the Alliance Memorial Sculpture Garden,

The Cultural Alliance, as part of Banningâs centennial celebration, has a ceremony scheduled at 11 a.m. Monday, May 27, to dedicate a monument honoring the 46 city residents who died in wars dating back to World War I.

The marble marker will be placed at the Alliance Memorial Sculpture Garden at the Banning Womanâs Club, 175 W. Hays St.

After the ceremony, the alliance is hosting a street dance and USO Show Tribute. Tickets for a barbecue, USO production and dance are $35 in advance and $40 at the door. For just the USO show, tickets are $15, and for the USO show and barbecue are $25 a person.

The afternoon dance and barbecue is set for noon to 3:30 p.m.

Then Pass Area Performing Arts presents a 1940s style show and evening dance beginning at 4 p.m. Their show will remind guests of a Bob Hope variety production, according to a news release about the events. Veterans are encouraged to come in uniform and women in period dress.

The show will feature solo vocalists, barbershop quartets and magicians, and directed by Stephanie Navarro, a USO center manager in Palm Springs

The womanâs club stage used to host USO programs during World War II.

For tickets, call: 951-722-5526, the box office, or 951-922-4911, the Banning Womanâs Club.

At the afternoon dance, there will be a chance to learn the popular dances of the 1940s, including the jitterbug, lindy hop and swing.

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